Officials on Friday morning rejected a proposal to close almost all polling locations in the majority-black rural southwest Randolph County in Georgia. The proposal would have closed seven of the county’s nine polling locations. The American Civil Liberties Union—which argued that such closures would have a disproportionate effect on black voters—was among several civil-rights groups that objected to the recommendation, which was announced in a newspaper a few weeks earlier. African Americans make up a full 60 percent of the county’s population.
